There's two ways of doing this the 1st is via task manager, by right clicking on the process & selecting a different priority. However depending on the program your using when you try to change the priority of the core via the Windows NT/2000/XP task manager this does not affect how much CPU the core gets. The reason for this is that the work is done by the core thread, which is fixed to run at idle priority and is not affected by the task manager priority for the process (which displays as 'normal' by default). In order to change the priority manually users must use a program that allows thread-level priority adjustments.

i have never heard of a way to do this. but it is not my area.nice design on the hp. (not). what kinda video you got on there? you sure it is the processor that is overheating?what have you tried? anything in the bios look good, like unclocking or something?i am wondering if anything you'd do in windows settyings might be over ridden by a rendering program that might get it's clutches right down into the hardware directly and ignore windows...i'd be looking into this via compaq. this doesn't sound right to me that you should be able to overheat the thing like that...it is rendernig for hours eh?

There are probably other manufacturers of similar devices, but my research into desktop cooling indicates that Cooler Master makes excellent, easily installable products that cool as well as any of their competitors, or very close.

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